Is there a bug in Windows explorer's sort by name?

[Jacopo Costa]

Hello,I am having issues with explorer's "sort by name" feature on windows 10 enterprise. I cannot provide a screenshot for company policy but the minimum setup is easy to recreate. If I create three files named, for example, 230e01 77ffc0 a0cd00, the one named 230e01 is always sorted in the middle of the other two despite being first alphanumerically (character "2" is byte 0x32, character "7" is byte 0x37 and character "a" is byte 0x61). It is vitally important that these files are sorted correctly because they are to be inspected in ascending order.Thank you in advance.J.

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